Brian Spooner (anthropologist)

Brian Spooner
Born
Newbury Park, Ilford, Essex, U.K.
NationalityBritish
Alma materOxford University
Scientific career
FieldsCultural Anthropology
Websitewww.globalizationstudies.upenn.edu

Brian J. Spooner is a British anthropologist. He is Professor of Anthropology, Undergraduate Chair at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, and Curator of Near Eastern Ethnology at the Penn Museum. His works is in areas including cultural and social anthropology; globalization, Islam, Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia; social organization, religion, ethnohistory, ecology and non-industrial economies.